The notion of how a lens-less photographic image can be perceived and interpreted by the viewer was a process I wanted to engage with in my studio practice. My work involves a dialogue between the nature of light-sensitive materials and the manipulation through process on one hand, and the relationships to the viewer’s personal perceptions of these images on the other.

Sphere Studies

With the Spheres series, I merged ideas of the early photogram process from the 1830s, and combined it with light painted onto photosensitive fiberbased paper. This process illustrates how photographs can be constructed to simulate imagery that moves beyond the capabilities of normal human perception and enters the dimension of fictive or otherworldly space.The surrealist relationship to camera-less photographs is a key aspect for me in this series. By experimenting with the chemical process and materiality of the black and white photographic medium, these images play with modes of perception in an unexpected spontaneous style.

Sphere Studies III, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Sphere Studies II, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Sphere Studies IV, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Sphere Studies I, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Sphere Studies V, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Sphere Studies VI, 2014

unique gelatin silver print: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Temporal Landscapes

When we say of a landscape that it has a romantic character, it is the secret feeling of the sublime taking the form of the past...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The connection to Goethe is reflected in this work as visual translations of landscapes and cityscapes that convey an uncommon pathos for the natural world. Time and the use of a somber, tranquil palette, along with careful attention to process and materiality are present here. The prints are created from instant Polaroid film with a lensless camera, scanned and printed on 24" x30" archival watercolor paper in limited editions.

Water's Edge

In this ongoing series of unique prints titled, Water’s Edge. I use found objects collected from the shoreline of New York City to make a tangible connection between the natural and the urban environments via the black and white analog process. The prints are a montage of these objects along with projected images and photogram techniques that speak directly to the materiality of the photographic process that started in the 1830s. A photographic record is made of the debris discarded from the urban world and remnants from the natural world washed up together along the shore. I wish to focus the viewer on the many visual modes of production analog photography can occupy, disrupting the familiar everyday experience with an enigmatic trace of the mind's eye.